PRN Operating Room Registered Nurse

Duties and Responsibilities

• Supervises and directs patient care in the operating room.
• Ensures that proper techniques and practices are used according to accepted standards of practice.
• Supervises other personnel in the room and directs or assists, as necessary.
• Ensures care is provided to the appropriate patient through proper identification and chart review.
• Performs scrub duties, as necessary, if within scope of practice.
• Maintains count of sponges, needles, and instruments to ensure no loss of items.
• Performs all circulation duties with efficiency and speed.
• Supervises and assists the scrub person as necessary.
• Positions the patient, prepares the operative area, and adjusts the table to the proper position.
• Ensures all supplies and equipment are in the room and provided to the team, as necessary.
• Opens all sterile packs and supplies according to aseptic technique.
• Affords assistance to surgeons, anesthesiologists, and other personnel as needed.
• Reviews surgeon’s preference cards and verifies with the surgeon, as necessary.
• Ensures all medications are administered and charted according to established policies and procedures.
• Cares for specimens and cultures as directed by set policies and procedures.
• Maintains OR records, specimens, implants, and reports any unusual occurrences.
• Affords assistance to the patient to the Recovery Room and reports to the Recovery Room nurse on the patient’s status.
• Affords assistance with control and maintenance of supplies and equipment, including stocking the ORs before the end of a shift and putting deliveries away.
• Affords assistance in supervision of personnel to provide optimum assurance of a safe environment.
• Checks rooms, materials, and equipment for proper care and handling.
• Ensures a clean, safe environment through continued alertness to safety.
• Affords assistance in control of traffic and personnel to ensure proper control of infection and asepsis.
• Affords assistance in operating room staff development and education.
• Affords assistance in formulation and interpretation of procedures, standards, and techniques.
• Affords assistance in orientation of new personnel.
• Affords assistance in evaluation of all operating room activities, nursing care provided, personnel, and techniques.
• Performs functions of registered nurse-recovery room and preoperative nurse, as assigned.
• Affords assistance in ensuring the center is tidy and that all deliveries and boxes are put away in all areas of the center.

Requirements

• Currently licensed as a registered professional nurse in the state of Maryland.
• Prior experience in perioperative nursing.
• CPR certification.